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The girl has also won a number of academic awards for posters and research reports. (Representation)
A Seoul university professor forced students to write his daughter's thesis to enter an elite dental school, a government report on the latest scandal that struck the system revealed on Tuesday. hyper-competitive education of South Korea.
The professor, who teaches at Seoul's Sungkyunkwan University, had her graduate students do a three-month experiment – and even asked them to make the results – before the girl published the results in an undergraduate journal. his own name.
The girl then included the thesis in an application to the dental school of the Seoul National University – the largest institution of its kind in the country – and was admitted last year.
South Korea is renowned for its highly competitive education system and its academic record is considered essential for defining adult life as it is key to the best jobs, social status and even prospects for adult education. wedding.
Many parents feel compelled to send their children to the best schools in the country and often make headlines for cheating the system – especially the case of a high school teacher arrested last year. under the charge of stealing examination papers for his daughters.
Political figures, including the current Minister of Education, Yoo Eun-hae, have apologized in the past for failures to educate children's ethics.
Last year, Yoo admitted to falsifying her home address to enroll her daughter in a prestigious elementary school in downtown Seoul.
In the latter case, the Ministry of Education said that he had asked prosecutors to investigate possible violations of the law.
"The Ministry of Education plans to ask his university to expel the professor," said an AFP official.
The investigation revealed that the professor had asked one of her students to perform 54 hours of volunteer work (converting a book into Braille) on behalf of her daughter, for which she had been paid 500,000 won (about 440 USD).
The girl has also won a number of academic awards for posters and research reports that have been completed by her mother's students, he added.
It has been widely reported that graduate students in the country are often abused and exploited, including long hours of laboratory work and shopping such as laundry for their teachers.
(With the exception of the title, this story has not been changed by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated thread.)
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